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Jens Brimmers has been a research assistant in the gear department at the WZL of RWTH Aachen University since May 2015. His research topics focus on the designing of gears — especially beveloid gears — and the development of the general FE-based tooth contact analysis program, ZaKo3D. Brimmers graduated from RWTH University in Aachen with a master's degree in mechanical engineering and a master's degree in business administration.
Tooth contact analysis is an integral part of the gear design process. With the help of these simulation tools, it is possible to calculate the excitation caused by a tooth contact (Ref. 1). Usually, the load-free transmission error or the total transmission error under load is used for this purpose. However, the calculation with the tooth contact analysis ZAKO3D allows only a quasi-static consideration of the excitation. To better evaluate the behavior in the overall system, it is therefore necessary to perform a dynamics simulation. However, the main disadvantage of such dynamics simulations is the much longer computing time compared to quasi-static tooth contact analyses due to the high computational effort.